<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - macOS: libreoffice crash on startup, VCL thread mutex condition" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103690#c57">Comment # 57</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - macOS: libreoffice crash on startup, VCL thread mutex condition" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103690">bug 103690</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:tml@iki.fi" title="Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>"> Tor Lillqvist</a> <pre>I think the essential thing in the tracebacks that hasn't bee mentioned (?) is the -[VCL_NSApplication screenParametersChanged:] line. For some reason, on some machines, that notification gets called too early before the SolarMutex has been set up (and VCL initialised in general). However, I could not reproduce it directly on my machine, using any of the hints above (tried both running "instdir/LibreOfficeDev.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice", "open instdir/LibreOfficeDev.app", and even putting it into the Dock and clicking that. The screenParametersChanged: method does not get called. I think in some other Mac crash bug report I have seen mentions that if the Dock has been resized to a non-standard size you would get crashes, so I tried that, too. I even tried resizing it back and forth while LO was starting, and with the machine loaded with a LO build with make -j10. But no crash. But, if I add a sleep(5) in initNSApp() (vcl/osx/salinst.cxx): > [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver: NSApp > selector: @selector(screenParametersChanged:) > name: NSApplicationDidChangeScreenParametersNotification > object: nil ]; > SAL_DEBUG(" sleeping a bit"); > sleep(5); > SAL_DEBUG(" slept"); and then change the Dock size in System Preferences while LO is sleeping, Boom!. The backtrace is exactly as mentioned here. I guess it is possible that some machines have some modifications to settings, or particular hardware or software, that causes the system to send all apps a NSApplicationDidChangeScreenParametersNotification when they start, and in the LibreOffice case that arrives before it is ready. So, the fix to this bug is probably to move the notification addObserver: calls to some later point, after VCL and the SolarMutex have been initialised. Will experiment.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>